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Coming out of the Burning Zhu Courtyard, Xu Ping looked up at the sun in the west and said in a low voice.

Li Zhang didn't answer, he was still thinking about what Xu Ping said just now. Since Empress Dowager Liu returned to heaven, Li Yonghe's rapid promotion has caused dissatisfaction among some people. The imperial court policy has always been that the emperor's relatives and relatives are raised by high-ranking officials, but they do not give real power to send, Li Yong and the previous protection of the emperor's mausoleum These things are okay, but now from the Imperial City Division to the Pastoral Division, I am afraid that the resistance encountered will not be small. Xu Ping's words can only be passed on at home, and it is not good to say what his father thinks in his heart.

The two turned around the Daxiangguo Temple, walked from the Yan'an Bridge to the State Bridge, and saw a lot of people around the shop from a distance.

Xu Ping asked strangely: "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, why do so many people come to the shop to buy things today." ”

"Maybe I'm here to buy items for the holidays." After saying that, Li Zhang didn't think about it, there were not many holiday items sold in Sansi's shop, and he wouldn't come here if he wanted to buy them.

suddenly thought about it, and said to Xu Ping: "Yes, tomorrow's festival, today the palace will give the pavilion officials and close ministers a reward for the festival." Unlike previous years, this year's gift is not tea and incense, but paper coupons issued by the three divisions. I'm afraid that many of these people have got coupons and come to the shop to buy things. Hey, my brother should have it too! ”

"My family is directly led by my entourage, even if there is one, I don't know."

Li Zhang shook his head helplessly, this is the difference between different family backgrounds. Xu Ping's money and rewards have never been cared about, they are all let Xu Chang and Liu Xiaoyi receive them, and Lin Suniang is in charge of the family, Xu Ping only needs to know what rewards he has received, which is also a good topic to prevent talking to his boss and colleagues.

Since the family of the Eighth King Zhao Yuanyan took the initiative to redeem shopping coupons in the Sansi shop, many large families in the capital quickly discovered this benefit, and the number of paper coupons issued has increased again and again, and it has exceeded 50,000 yuan in a few days. Even the palace has exchanged a large amount of tea and incense in his hand for shopping coupons, and today's reward will simply be issued directly.

In the past, the three divisions handled these items in various warehouses, and the biggest shipping channel was to break the money when issuing officials' salaries, which made it inconvenient. Now that Yulu has changed to make real money, this channel no longer works, and it mainly relies on sales in the shop. These items can become hard currency, naturally not worrying about sales, but the market in the capital is limited, and it takes time for the goods that have been accumulated for so many years to be realized.

Xu Ping and Li Zhang were curious, turned to the front of the shop, and met a group of pavilion officials walking from the side, including Wang Gongchen, Ouyang Xiu, Yin Zhu and others.

Seeing Xu Ping, Wang Gongchen and others hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Xu Ping asked Wang Gongchen: "Why do you have so many people here?" It's not a feast and a drink, it's about time. ”

Wang Gongchen took out a stack of paper coupons from his sleeve, patted them in his hand, and said with a smile: "This year's Dragon Boat Festival reward, the palace issued paper coupons." This coupon can only buy the goods in the three shops, of course, you have to buy it back as soon as possible and use it early, how can you keep it in your hand. ”

Xu Ping looked at the others and nodded together. Once the paper coupons reach these people, they are different from large households, and they will soon flow back to the shops of the three divisions, which is equivalent to speeding up the circulation. Now the only trouble is that the tea and incense that Sanji redeemed with shopping coupons have taken up funds, and they have to ship them quickly. At this time, it was obvious that there were advantages in the state capitals of other roads, and the bulk goods were fast, and now the public officials could only take them to the nearby bulk goods to buy raw materials.

Seeing that Ouyang Xiu at the back of the crowd lowered his head and did not speak, Xu Ping remembered the bet he made with him a few days ago, of course, now that the status of the two is too far apart, there is no need for him to worry about him, he just smiled and shook his head.

The others knew it, and they also knew that Ouyang Xiu couldn't wipe his face for a while, so they laughed and pulled him into the shop.

Xu Ping said to Li Zhang: "Let's go, let's go in and have a look, the festival is here, buy some gifts and take them home." ”

In more than a month, the scale of this shop has grown a lot, and a lot of former vacant land has been used. In addition, the shops now not only sell goods produced in the new store, but also add a lot of items purchased from other places, and are getting closer and closer to department stores.

Such as lacquerware from Xiangzhou, scissors from Bingzhou, sugar and ramie from Guangnan West Road, silk from Jingdong Road, Shu brocade from Yizhou Road, etc., these famous products of this era are now sold in the shop. And there are some gadgets, such as needles and threads, hats and boots, umbrellas and kitchen knives, and shops have found a fixed source of purchase, and the goods are more complete and better than the outside.

The most important thing in a department store is to be complete, and there is no one in the world who can compare to the three divisions.

It's just that the three divisions used to use non-commercial methods to collect money, monopolize goods, and even buy and sell, and let the people buy and buy as soon as the business loses money, and if no one buys it, they will designate someone to buy it, and they never do a loss-making business anyway. Now that Xu Ping has opened a new field and opened a shop, he can be regarded as a serious businessman, and the effect seems to be good.

After taking a turn in the shop, Xu Ping said to Li Zhang: "There are really a lot of people today, and I don't usually think it, but at this time, I feel that there are really a lot of officials in the capital." ”

Li Zhang smiled: "Brother, don't forget that there are still us people. The soldiers and generals of the front division of the palace and the gate are also rewarded, as well as the close personnel of the imperial city division, if you really want to talk about it, the number of people may not be less than the officials in the capital. ”

Xu Ping thought about it and nodded. The people around the emperor, any of them are also a little official, and they are naturally indispensable to reward the ministers with money, and they want more and better.

The first floor is used by the public for daily items, and the second floor is mostly luxury goods, Xu Ping and Li Zhang took a turn on the first floor, and then walked to the second floor to see what rare things there are. Now there are more and more things sold in the shop, and even Xu Ping can't tell what the goods are inside, especially some local products and the like, many Xu Ping have never heard of it.

When I went upstairs, I first saw the pavilion officials gathered together, picking up books around the shelves.

The paper mill in the new yard has begun to produce in large quantities, and all kinds of paper are being produced in a steady stream. The first to benefit is the printing industry, the newly printed book three divisions of the printing bureau and the Guozijian has been widely used movable type and copperplate, the use of ink, the previous paper is no longer applicable, and must use the printing paper produced by the three divisions. The result is a more beautiful book, a crisp paper, and much less expensive than before, with a rapid increase in variety and number of prints.

In this shop, a special place for selling books was opened on the second floor, similar to the bookstore in Xu Ping's previous life, not only the variety of books was unprecedentedly complete, but also you could try to read, and it quickly became famous in the capital.

In the past, scholars liked to visit the stalls of the Great Daoxiang Temple, and they might be able to find out-of-print books that could not be seen elsewhere, or rare stone tablet rubbings and the like. A few days ago, Xu Ping sent people to Xiangguo Temple to search several times, and organized manpower to print a lot of ancient books, enriching the inventory here. Nowadays, this place in the shop specializes in selling books, and it has become a favorite place for readers. It was a big surprise for them that they could buy books with shopping vouchers. (To be continued.) )